A building should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
一座建筑应该讲述它的时代和地点，但渴望永恒。
Every border implies the violence of its maintenance.
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.
On choosing friends: "Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful."